yooper;170970 Wrote: > Here is my set up and thoughts. > > All my equipment is in my theater room. > > Mac Mini S/PDIF-toslink (glass)out to Transporter digital in. > Mac Mini video out is connected via DVI/HDMI to TV allowing the TV to > act a my monitor. > > Transporter is running balanced (XLR) out to pre-amp. > > So I'm thinking, if I want to use iTunes and ALAC, I can bypass > Slimserver's interface while the Transporter DAC works it mojo on the > digital in. > > This should work, no? > > If it does, my biggest concern is, will I lose any sound quality using > the glass toslink (jitter) instead of a wireless stream? > > The obvious down side to this...no more flac. > > The upside, IMHO, a more elegent design/interface, ease of use/music > management. > > Any thoughts?
Well, doing things this way you're simply using the TP as a DAC, which, while I'm sure it's a good one, isn't really what it was designed for. For that setup you will get better or equivalent results with a jitter-rejecting DAC such as the Benchmark or Lavry, and at half the cost. However if you already have a TP you may as well go ahead and try it; I doubt the jitter induced by the Toslink will have any significant effect. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31736 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
